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Algeria Closes Airspace to All Moroccan Aircraft

On September 22, 2021 Algeria said it was closing its airspace to Moroccan aviation due to 'continued provocations'. Farouk Batiche, AFP
On September 22, 2021 Algeria said it was closing its airspace to Moroccan aviation due to 'continued provocations'. Farouk Batiche, AFP
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Algeria Closes Airspace to All Moroccan Aircraft

On September 22, 2021 Algeria said it was closing its airspace to Moroccan aviation due to 'continued provocations'. Farouk Batiche, AFP
On September 22, 2021 Algeria said it was closing its airspace to Moroccan aviation due to 'continued provocations'. Farouk Batiche, AFP

Algeria said Wednesday it has closed its airspace to all Moroccan civil and military aircraft, amid heightened tensions between the two North African countries in recent months.

“The High Security Council has decided to shut its airspace immediately to all civilian and military aircraft as well as to those registered in Morocco," a statement by the presidency said.

The decision to close Algeria's airspace was announced after a meeting of the High Security Council chaired by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

A source at the Royal Moroccan Airlines said Algeria’s closure of airspace to Moroccan aircraft from Wednesday would only affect 15 flights weekly linking Morocco with Tunisia, Turkey and Egypt.

On August 24, Algeria had severed diplomatic relations with Morocco, accusing Rabat of carrying out incessant hostile acts, claiming it was complicit in deadly forest fires that ravaged the country's north.

In response, Rabat said it regrets Algeria's "completely unjustified" decision to break off diplomatic relations.

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Hamas Claims Attack on Israeli Bus in West Bank That Wounded 8 People, Including 4 Soldiers

Four people suffered bullet wounds, three of them serious, and four others were lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service - AFP
Four people suffered bullet wounds, three of them serious, and four others were lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service - AFP
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Hamas Claims Attack on Israeli Bus in West Bank That Wounded 8 People, Including 4 Soldiers

Four people suffered bullet wounds, three of them serious, and four others were lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service - AFP
Four people suffered bullet wounds, three of them serious, and four others were lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service - AFP

Hamas claimed responsibility for a shooting attack on an Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank on Friday that wounded eight people, including four soldiers.

It was the latest violence to scar the territory as tensions run high 14 months into the Israel-Hamas war.

The attacker, who Hamas identified in a statement as Samer Hussein, 46, was killed by Israeli troops shortly after opening fire toward the bus at a junction near the Israeli settlement of Ariel.

The military said four soldiers were lightly wounded. Paramedics said three people were critically wounded.

Attacks by Palestinian fighters on Israelis in the volatile territory have grown more common since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, as Palestinian deaths have also spiked.  

Israeli fire has killed 796 Palestinians since Oct. 7, 2023, mostly in military raids on Palestinian cities and towns. Attacks by settlers on Palestinians and their property have also increased.